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Click to Expand/Collapse OptionIntroduction
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionSpread of the Christian faith to India (1)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionKing Abenner of India, his childlessness and persecution of Christian monks
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionOne of the King’s servents becomes Christian and the King upbraids him in a dialogue (2)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe servant’s sermon: Rage and Greed are our worst enemies
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe servant explains why he became a monk
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King had decided to torture the servant to death, but instead chases him away
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionA most beautiful son is born to the King
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionVice men phrophecy that the son will be not a King of this world, but another, and will be Christian (3)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King places his son in a palace in luxurious isolation from all the suffering of the world
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King’s formost and most noble servant brings home a sick man from the hunt; but he is a Christian, and the other servants plot against him before the King (4)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe sick man advices the nobleman how to cope with the King’s rage, and the King forgives him, but continues his persection of Monks
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionOut hunting, the King meets monks, talks with them and then burns them
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince wonders why he cannot go out of the palace, and one of his teachers then says that it is because the King does not want him to hear about Christian teachings (5)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince asks the King to go out, and he is allowed to go to places which are only pleasant.
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince sees a leper and a blind, and becomes very depressed
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince sees an old and crippled man on the next trip out, and is told he soon will die, as humans will
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince goes home and reflect on death, in sorrow
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionBy the calling of the Holy Spirit the monk Barlaam seeks admission to the prince as a trader, with the pretext of selling him a jewel
G.R. Woodward, H. Mattingly, 1914, p. 54,1
ἵππους αὐτίκα ἐκλεκτοὺς καὶ δορυφορίαν τὴν βασιλεῖ πρέπουσαν εὐτρεπισθῆναι κελεύσας, προέρχεσθαι αὐτὸν ὅτε βούλοιτο διωρίσατο, ἐπισκήψας τοῖς συνοῦσιν αὐτῷ μηδὲν ἀηδὲς εἰς συνάντησιν αὐτῷ ἄγειν, ἀλλὰ πᾶν ὅ τι καλὸν καὶ τέρψιν ἐμποιοῦν, τοῦτο ὑποδεικνύειν τῷ παιδί,
Jacobus Billius Prunaeus, 1577 A.D., Migne no. 73, col. 458b1
Ac statim eximios equos ac satellitum manum regiae dignitati congruentem parari jussit, eique toras, quoties vellet, progrediendi potestatem fecit. Iis autem qui cum eo versabantur summopere mandavit ut curarent ne quid injucundi obviam haberet; verum quidquid pulchrum et amoenum ac jucundum esset, ipsi ostenderent;
G.R. Woodward, H. Mattingly, 1914
And immediately he ordered that choice steeds, and an escort fit for a king, be made ready, and gave him license to go abroad whensoever he would, charging his companions to suffer nothing unpleasant to come in his way, but to show him all that was beautiful and gladsome.
Holm perg. 6 fol. 3ra22-30
oc let þegar fram (23) leiða. allzskonar riddaralegar (24) hernneskivr með sømelegom (25) mannum. oc kononglegre (26) sømd. bauð þat skynsamlega (27) at giæta þess. at þeir skylldu (28) i þa eina staðe hann leiða. sem (29) honom þøtte lystilegazt vera (30) firr augum.
H.E.Kinck, 1852 p. 23,1
og lod strax fremföre alle Slags harniskede Ryttere og tilbörligt Fölge med Kongelig Opvartning. Han böd dem med Skjönsomhed at agte paa, at de alene skulde före ham til de Steder, hvor det kunde tykkes ham lysteligst at se til.
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